Impacted Crop?

[Chicken0Boy]

This is a newbie question, (I rather know than not know

) but how can you tell if your chicken has an impacted crop?

 

[wildorchid053]

is it hard? is there a yucky smell? those are some signs of impacted crop

 

[TheFarmMama]

Impacted crop

Symptoms:- Crop still feels very full in the morning before the bird has fed. Crop is hard and food or other matter has formed a solid impassable ball, this is often caused by long strands of tough grass.

Sour crop

Symptoms:- This is caused by a bacterial infection similar to thrush. Basically food is rotting in the crop. The crop will feel squishy. If you hold up the bird, give it a gentle squeeze, and smell it's breath it will smell awful.